#lit

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#fascinated #great #intrigued #lives #obsessed

I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them. ↗

— Ian Rush

#always #ball club #both #club #coaching

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#air #begins #constructs #fiction #givens

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#about #accidents #both #brought #conflict

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#combat #decides #engage #find #individual

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#after #any #anybody #argument #authoritarian

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#easily #make #power #room #solitude

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. ↗

— John Ruskin

#let us #little #needed #our #prisons

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. ↗

— John Ruskin

#deal #great #great deal #kindness #little

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. ↗

— John Ruskin

#ideal #positive #reality #seeking #study